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25th Knesset · outgoing

Promotion of Construction in Preferred Housing Areas (Temporary Provision) Law (Amendment – Adequate Representation for the Haredi Sector) Bill

Translated from Hebrew: הצעת חוק לקידום הבנייה במתחמים מועדפים (הוראת שעה) (תיקון - ייצוג הולם למגזר החרדי)

TL;DRA bill to add a representative of a Haredi locality to the Preferred Housing Zones Committee and to define a Haredi locality by the percentage of Haredi education institutions.

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What does the bill do?

The bill amends the Law for the Promotion of Construction in Preferred Housing Zones by defining a "locality of the Haredi population" as a locality in which at least 80% of the education institutions are Haredi institutions. It also requires that one of the local authority heads serving on the Preferred Housing Zones Committee be the head of a local authority of a Haredi locality. The committee deals with building and housing plans in Israel, and the bill assigns it representation of the Haredi population similar to the existing representation of Arab, Druze and Circassian localities.

Passed preliminary readingFirst plenum vote: December 17, 2025
Initiated by: a party that left the coalitionRead the full text (bill for first reading) ↗

The votes on this bill

Passed50 for · 37 against · 0 abstained · 33 did not vote
Source: the Knesset's vote record ↗

Coalition 67 seats

LikudFor 27 · Absent 5
ShasFor 7 · Absent 4
United Torah JudaismFor 5 · Absent 2
Religious ZionismFor 6 · Absent 1
Otzma YehuditFor 2 · Absent 4

Left the coalition 9 seats

NoamAbsent 1

Opposition 44 seats

Yesh AtidAgainst 23 · Absent 1
Yisrael BeytenuAgainst 3 · Absent 3
Ra'amAbsent 5
LaborAgainst 3 · Absent 1

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